I bought a whole home battery system before checking my local grid rules

Spent about $12,000 on a big battery setup for my house in Austin, thinking I could go fully off-grid and sell power back. Turns out, our utility has really specific rules about how you can connect and sell, so now it just sits there as a very expensive backup for outages. Has anyone else run into this kind of red tape with home energy stuff?

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parker_price3d ago

Remember my buddy in Phoenix? He bought a massive solar setup before reading the fine print and now he can't even turn it on.

harpery473d ago

You said it just sits there as a backup, but honestly that's not the worst thing. Power goes out a lot here too, so a reliable backup is pretty nice to have.

eric_knight72d ago

Yeah but "reliable backup" is the thing, if it's broken because of some fine print then it's not reliable at all. That's just an expensive paperweight.